(FALL HUNKS) Eric Close from NASHVILLE!

Eric Close, 45, from Staten Island, New York, is an American film and television actor. He had a brief stint in daytime television when he played Sawyer Walker on NBC's daytime drama Santa Barbara.

He returned to the stage with Thanksgiving Cries. He has had many guest appearances on television, and landed leading roles on such shows as McKenna (one season, 1994–1995 and shot in Portland), Dark Skies (one season, 1996–1997), The Magnificent Seven (two seasons, 1998–1999), Now and Again (one season, 1999–2000), and the Steven Spielberg produced miniseries Taken (2002).

Close co-starred on CBS's Without a Trace as FBI agent Martin Fitzgerald from 2002 to 2009. He currently starring as Teddy Conrad, Connie Britton’s husband, in ABC drama series Nashville.